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Metro Manila

overall rank: 25

1998 rank: 14

country: Philippines

population: 10,208,290


snapshot: Metro Manila at a glance rank
overall score 49 25
average income US$ 13,549.65 12
educational spending 1 452.68 12
ratio of house price to income 2 7.60 9
hospital beds per 1000 people 1.5 31
pollution 3 200 26
vehicles per km of road 435a 30
criminal cases per 10,000 155.9 32
TV sets per 1,000 people 250a 17
inflation 10.2 -
GDP growth 2.4 28
unemployment rate 9.80 33
average class size 40.0 24
life expectancy 72.1 17
commute time 58 29
phones per 1,000 people 297 18
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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
a estimates
b national figure
c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
1 state educational spending, per capita US$
2 average house price divided by average annual income
3 suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m3)

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